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• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  On the morning of the second day of classes, I got a newsletter email ... the rest of that day complaining to anyone around me.  When I met with ... the endless amount of questions I have about this world. To be given

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So why, then ... are taken out of the envelope, given an official MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer's Drinking Song goes like this: An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell ... - this was following approximately 3 hours of sleep the night before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and ... Majorana fermions. That's exciting, since the colloquium a couple of weeks ... rewarding; you start attending, and understand literally 0.01% of the words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more ... , the other facing the sunlight. Nearly twelve uninterrupted weeks of

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  abandoned in the midnight heat, and only the steady murmur of the Charles ... surroundings. Or when the exhaustion of a dozen sleepless nights brought me down ... chocolate, and take a walk. I assured myself that the lack of motivation was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  charter fishing boat is only as good as its fish finder. That's the sonar ... fish. But a conventional fish finder examines only a small slice of the ... square miles of the ocean and find millions of fish. Rather than being used

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 ... fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  Hidden from most of the hustle and bustle of classes and rushing to the next thing in life via the infinite corridor is the basement of the ... LCC exists simply to promote and support all of the Latino organizations

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In ... and whatever), so in the spirit of conserving the quantity of cynicism

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  finishing the last of four exams on Monday, I had a pleasant four-hour lapse into the depths of meditative relaxation, AKA, I ate some fruit and read ... that you have failed a test is the equivalent of eating a burrito

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus ... ). I'm not a very good photographer, but here are a few images of campus ... , and more. One of the dinner tables at ZBT; in this picture, you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  So, I'm from Columbus, Ohio, home of Jungle Jack Hanna and the ... !) and pick the movie -- March of the Penguins. It was awesome, although I think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  full of finding out about the lives of those who are applying to MIT and ... I don’t have to navigate the crush of people during passing time I ... favorite parts of the job. If you have ever been to one of my sessions you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  this right. Specifically the snow piles in front of 77 Mass Ave. Once ... there a golden droplet at the end of the icicle? (Fun fact: Icicles form ... to be the Mexican version of Chuck Norris. This was admittedly a long

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  towards society's good… I cannot. Sure, the members of the Underwater ... -campus premiere of the documentary Underwater Dreams. The film follows the journey of four high school students from the Arizona desert, who in 2004 won

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery ... grandmother accidentally stuffed with snow As you can see, the existence of the ... is kind of awesome, even if the requirement descriptions are written

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... course of the summer, I got very close with my roommate but, the summer was ... blogs seemed like a good platform and the bloggers, a good community

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023